Christopher Whitaker didn’t know it, but though he was convicted of viciously killing Alianna DeFreeze, he helped start a movement to keep it from happening to anyone else. "There will never be ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Nearly two years after the death of Alianna DeFreeze, her family is upset the abandoned home where she was tortured and killed remains standing. The home on Fuller Avenue in ...

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The attorneys for the parents of Alianna DeFreeze filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday. DeFreeze was 14 when she was kidnapped on the way to E Prep Village Prep Woodland Hills ...

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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Friends, family and strangers attended a funeral service Saturday for Alianna DeFreeze, a 14-year-old girl kidnapped, killed and left in an abandoned home on Cleveland's ...

The family of a Cleveland girl who was tortured, raped and murdered by a sex offender while on her way to school five years ago has received a $1 million settlement in connection with a lawsuit filed ...

The father of Alianna DeFreeze led a group of protesters in front of the Q this afternoon. Damon DeFreeze is part of a movement against spending tax money at Quicken Loans Arena and downtown until ...

Donald DeFreeze, left, was killed in a massive firefight with police in 1974. He kidnapped Patty Hearst earlier that year. (Wikipedia and The Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The violent death of ...

CLEVELAND --A registered sex offender who could face the death penalty for the slaying of a 14-year-old Cleveland girl has pleaded not guilty. A judge on Thursday refused to set bond for 44-year-old ...

Lawyers for the family of a Cleveland girl who was abducted on her way to school and later found killed have sued the teen's school, claiming staff there never told the family she was absent — a ...